Latino Quotes - Page 7

• If you look at sentencing in America, African-Americans and Latinos get sentenced for the same crimes at very different rates.

  Tim Kaine

  America, Different, Looks

  Source: www.politico.com

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• 75%-90% of the murders that occur in black and Latino communities are solvable. Everybody knows who did it or somebody knows. The reason nobody talks is because snitches get stitches and people aren't bulletproof.

  Cheo Hodari Coker

  People, Community, Black

  Source: deadline.com

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• [Donald] Trump is explained with the intersection of a number of things: our economic crisis, the way it's easier to blame immigrants, with the happenstance that he discovered that by bashing Latino immigrants and characterizing them as "rapists" and "murderers" and "scumbags," suddenly he's got this groundswell of support from a group of people who were raised on this vocabulary.

  Junot Diaz

  Numbers, Vocabulary, People

  "Junot Díaz is staying put". Interview with Marcela García, www.bostonglobe.com. April 6, 2016.

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• Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by Greek, by Latin, by Arabic, by Yiddish, by Latino, by German, by Russian, by English, I could go on and on. It's very much like English.

  Amos Oz

  Latin, Years, Greek

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• In America we need members of the Latino community to come to the Tea Party movement and enrich the Tea Party.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Party, America, Community

  Source: latinalista.com

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• I do believe that in America there needs to be a primary language and that English should be that language, it's not a radical position, it's a position that's held by countless people who are Latino.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Believe, America, People

  Source: latinalista.com

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• I love Latino culture but I hate the concept of "la raza." It is a divisive mindset.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Hate, Culture, Mindset

  Source: latinalista.com

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• I've just been flooded with emails of people just giving testimonies of their lives, saying exactly this. I got an email from a guy who works for some sort of defense contractor, some lower-level job, served in the military. And he said, look, I served in the military with black and Latino soldiers. My supervisor is a young black woman who's smart as a whip, and I admire her, and we get along great.

  Steve Inskeep

  Jobs, Smart, Military

  Source: www.npr.org

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• People are discouraged from voting and part of what is important for Latino citizens is to make your voice heard, because you're not just speaking for yourself. You're speaking for family members, friends, classmates of yours in school.

  Barack Obama

  School, Voice, People

  "No, this video does not show Obama urging undocumented people to vote" by Caitlin Dewey and Abby Ohlheiser, www.washingtonpost.com. November 8, 2016.

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• [Donald Trump] went on to, you know, otherize Muslims, otherize Latinos, otherize women, that he built out from that. And it can be true that a unique, you know, individual like Barack Obama can succeed in spite of that and still be the case that that force is quite, quite strong.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Strong, Unique, Succeed

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Imagine if you had genuine, high-quality early-childhood education for every child, and suddenly every black child in America - but also every poor white child or Latino [child], but just stick with every black child in America - is getting a really good education. And they're graduating from high school at the same rates that whites are, and they are going to college at the same rates that whites are, and they are able to afford college at the same rates because the government has universal programs. So now they're all graduating.

  Barack Obama

  Children, School, College

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Some people wanted me to be the Latino quarterback. Some people wanted me to be the USC quarterback who happens to be Latino.

  Mark Sanchez

  People, Usc, Quarterback

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• In all honesty, because my name is Cinco and I grew up in Phoenix, I had a lot of exposure to Latin culture and those sorts of things, and that inspired the idea of this villain, El Macho. The name came first and everything else came after that. We loved the idea of this villain. Ken actually has a lot of Latino roots in his family, too.

  Cinco Paul

  Honesty, Latin, Names

  Source: collider.com

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• If you go to a network and say, "I wanna do prison stories about black women and Latino women and old women," you're not gonna make a sale. But, if you've got this blonde girl going to prison, you can get in there, and then you can tell all the stories. I just thought it was a terrific gateway drug into all the things I wanted to get into.

  Jenji Kohan

  Girl, Drug, Black

  Source: collider.com

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• In Latino culture, the quinceanera's a big thing - it's when a girl
  becomes a woman. But I think age is just a number - you become a
  woman with the responsibilities you take on and the decisions you
  make. I started realizing that every day is a gift - you have every day to
  be thankful you're alive.

  Emily Rios

  Girl, Responsibility, Thinking

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• The only place where we're not segregated in mass is in sports. You go to a football stadium or a basketball arena, and all of America is there: the wealthy, the poor, the black, white, Latino, conservative, liberal, and we all talk about sports.

  Jason Whitlock

  Basketball, Sports, Football

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• So many people complain that there aren't enough Latinos on television, and yet when they are, they need support.

  Eva Longoria

  People, Support, Complaining

  "Eva Longoria 'encouraged' by progress in TV's diversity". Interview with Patrick Ryan, www.usatoday.com. December 5, 2015.

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• Don`t take it out on the Muslims. Don`t take it out on Latinos. Try to help us work together to create a country where your kids and you can have a decent standard of living. It has to be a bold and radical agenda.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Kids, Working Together

  "Sanders: Muslims Are Not Your Enemy And Progressive Values Are The Answer". www.realclearpolitics.com. December 09, 2015.

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• Obama is the closest thing to a Latino that we have. Barack. Everybody wants to see his birth certificate too.

  George Lopez

  Want, Birth, Certificates

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• My grandmother instilled in me a toughness that comes with survival. She was a tough lady and never truly enjoyed her life. She would always worry about things and I would tell her that it wasn't going to get her anywhere and it didn't. I wasn't even that smart back then, but I knew that worrying about everyone else wasn't good for her health. As Latinos, we stress and worry so much about the future when the future is today. As long as we protect what's good in our lives, we will be all right.

  George Lopez

  Smart, Stress, Grandmother

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• I think it's easier for African American and white comics to be praised than it is Latinos because they think our culture or our humor is substandard. I mean, I just don't think they want to give us credit. I just don't think that they see us as important enough to be at their level. I'm the longest-produced comedy at Warner Bros. and I don't feel special. They come over and say hello. But everybody's gonna make a lot of money and I don't feel like I'm special to them.

  George Lopez

  Mean, Thinking, White

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• We have more people in jail than any other country in Earth, disproportionately Latino and African-American.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Jail, People

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• Think the very fact that somebody like Mike Pence is seen as useful to the [Donald] Trump campaign would be analytically a sign of difficulty for him because, you know, the Republican Party over the last two decades has needed to include his support among women, among Latinos, among blacks, among young people, and among highly educated people.

  Mark Colvin

  Party, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• For me, the hardest thing was dropping the whole Latino comic title.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Titles, Comic, Dropping

  Source: www.themonitor.com

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• My comedy has no color, it's for everybody, black, white, Latino, Asian. It's not a pro-black show, not a def jam show; it's just straight, wholesome type of humor.

  Bruce Bruce

  Color, White, Black

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